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[+24 | Slideshow] Photos from the Friday Night Social back in November. Back when I still through threw parties.

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[+230 | Slideshow] uncelestial had a pretty epic birthday party at his new home last night. The best addition (which I'm totally going to gank for my next theme party) was a greenscreen photobooth with 20+ backgrounds. Of course, the 9/11 background was the most popular - you just can't go wrong with exploding planes. I was in a quiet mood last night and took quite a few photos, although my camera managed to make the rounds so I'm looking forward to what debauchery found its way onto my memory card. Of course, I still haven't posted photos from my halloween party yet so we'll see if I ever get around to going through them.

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The other day Katie threw a pumpkin carving and dinner party for her friends (as well as a few of mine) at our house. I wasn't feeling particularly social, which means you actually get photos. [+29 | Slideshow] Oh, and this set includes probably my favorite photo ever of meowlet.

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A few weeks ago, while honoring the Woman Out Of Town (woot) Protocol, goldfischegirl, mrsimul and I crashed my friend Willow's party hell-and-gone somewhere in South Seattle (original post). Anyway, I uploaded the photos a while back but never got a chance to cross-post them here. Many of the pictures from the set were taken by Ashley as we were sharing camera duty that night. It ended up being a pretty wild party and there are some fun photos in the set. Ashley took this one, although you'd never know. Our styles have seemed to merge over the last few years. This was my costume for part of the night. I also ended up as an injun at some point, a cowboy at another and a farmer (?) at yet another. These photos were obviously taken by Ashley. [+28 | Slideshow]

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As has been the trend lately, I was more interested in socializing than taking photographs and so I only have a handful of pictures from the party. Fortunately, popcultureicon was in attendance with his Canon 450D. The lighting was dim so I loaned him my flash and, despite never working with an attached unit, he took an exceptional set that really captures the mood of the party. Every few years it seems the Official Event Photographer role passes to a new person; originally it was goldfischegirl, then the baton was passed on deceitfully taken by me, and now Christopher's assumed responsibility. (This, I fear, means I my camera will get invited to less parties). meowlet with a World War II era newspaper (she brought a bunch of neat relics from the 40s). Katie also really likes suxdonut's photo of the cake. Another shot of my costume, also by popcultureicon. suxdonut and clay88. [+61 | Slideshow] [Additional sets by: Ashley, Ang, and Tatiana] The 1943 USO Ball has been my favorite party at the new house, if not the best party I've ever thrown. The theme was very successful; I think it was planned long-enough in advance and offered enough quickly-assembled costume ideas that it was easy for people to come in character. Katie also did a great job compiling the background music, which helped maintain the mood. A fairly decent sized crowed showed up (I'd estimate 50 people?); probably less than the last party, but it was a diverse group of friends which kept things interesting without getting out-of-hand. Quite a few people showed up who I haven't seen in a long-time, including meowlet and seennotheard (who made a fantastic Rosie the Riveter); this made me happy. (Of course, others were missed, such as sidspencer, my father and practically all of Katie's friends who are, apparently, terrified of my parties). ( Open Mic ). ( Partying at 1928 ). ( Laural's Death Fall ). ( The After Party ). ( Military Chic ). Anyway, thanks to all of the people who showed up and made it such a memorable birthday! I hope everyone else had as good of a time as I did.

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Some few years ago, a very peculiar kissing custom arose which deserves mention here because, from it, we can learn how to adapt the method to our modem devices. At that time, when young people got together, they held, what was then known as, "electric kissing parties." Young people are ever on the outlook for novel ways of entertaining themselves. In fact, when ether was first developed as an anesthetic, the young bloods of the town used to form "ether-sniffing" parties in which they got a perfectly squiffy ether "jag." But to return to the "electric kisses." An excerpt from a contemporary writer will, perhaps, give us some idea of what happened.

'The ladies and gentlemen range themselves about the room. In leap year the ladies select a partner, and together they shuffle about on the carpet until they are charged with electricity, the lights in the room having been first turned low. Then they kiss in the dark; and make the sparks fly for the amusement of the onlookers.' [More]

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Last night at goldfischegirl's birthday, where it was rediscovered just how much fun one can have with whipped cream. Unfortunately, no one got photos of sarevilo as she was pretty damned hot - and she vetoed the three I took of her.

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[+70 | Slideshow] I'm sure the legend of hotcrab and Ryan's wedding is now old news to most of you, but for those who weren't able to make it here are some photos to give you a taste of the debauchery. The short of it: caseyplusplus, sidspencer, herbaliser and velvet and I stole a Mercedes, loaded it up with various forms of entertainment and headed straight for San Francisco. Three sleepless nights, scores of friends, a handful of crack whores, two inappropriately placed manikins, a ruined swimming pool, a marching band, a marriage, a few hazy moments and countless photographs best forgotten later we returned home. Edit: Oh, and courtesy of niftybitch, here's one of me right after fierceflawless pulled me into the pool. This was back when you could still see the bottom of the pool, which didn't last long.

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[+59 | Slideshow] Photos from the halloween party last Saturday.

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goldfischegirl and I are throwing a party tonight. The Church (West Seattle). This is a great venue - and a bit more central than my house. Let me know if you'll need a ride. This is a costume party (of course) and pot luck; please bring food and/or drink. Starts at 7:00 PM, but I'm sure it'll go late.

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[+77 | Slideshow] Photos from my thirtieth birthday party. In addition, there are 41 photos from Ang, including quite a few of me sweating profusely (ugh! Alcohol + heat = ew). Some photos may not be safe for your work.

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11:55 am - kety's Soririty Party

[+21] Also includes photos from gfrancie's party.

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[+19 | Slideshow] A handful of photos from fritz_da_kat's wedding on Saturday.

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[+17 | Slideshow] Kate's birthday party was a lot of fun = making out + minimal drama + a good mix of people. As has been the trend lately, I didn't take that many photos; spent more time actually talking to people. Also, djnancygirl and screed came up from Portland which was really awesome. We went to Reg and Laural's for an afterparty, although I was pretty much completely out of it by that point and we ended up leaving after an hour or so (which still put it near dawn by the time we got back).

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[+11] Quent and Sara, as usual, went all out for the theme of Katie's party. That aside the theme was a bit of a dud because either it wasn't distinct enough or it was too broad, I'm not sure. Regardless, quent and daevarra looked fabulous and it was an all around fun party.

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05:18 pm - girl19's Birthday Party

[+26 | Slideshow] After a brief visit with herbaliser and velvet at Bal Mar, we headed all the way down to Tacoma for girl19's birthday party at Bob's Java Jive, where we also saw das_prompt (although the noise level didn't permit much conversation). In honor of the birthday girl, this set mostly includes pictures of Miranda (and her ass).

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[+25 | Slideshow] Having a prom when your religion doesn't permit dancing is pretty challenging, but hopefully this party made up for it. Mix habenero vodka with lack of sleep and no food for twenty four hours (my typical mistake) and -- well, the camera tells the story (in reverse chronological order - Irreversible style). Certainly better than my memory of the events, at least. (And I wonder why Katie's friends don't like me...)

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[+44 | Slideshow] Really, these photos are exceptionally awful as a whole, but they give a glimpse into the New Years / Mardi Gras nightlife. This was my first time using my new flash and, well, it's pretty obvious.

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[+35 | Slideshow] Katie's family's church had a Christmas party at Katie's parent's house the other day. This was full of exciting events such an outdoor barbeque (in fourty degree weather?!) and an innovative game in which teams had to assemble bible verses; I haven't had this much fun since attending my grandmother's "vacation bible school" in third grade. This photo is of Katie's dad (Jose) and sister. I also have photos of her mother, niece, niece and nephew as well as a variety of other people that I didn't know. I also liked this photo of one of the refugees from New Orleans. I'm hoping to get more photos of the displaced in the next week; Katie and I will be heading down to New Orleans tomorrow and staying there for a few days.

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[+13 | Slideshow] On Friday, Katie and I went to her math department party at University of Washington. It was a potluck and there was a ton of food. Katie brought Swedish meatballs that were quite excellent. Anyway, here are some photos. I liked this one of some professor choking his newborn baby; I thought it was adorable.

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At Katie's department's white elephant exchange, I won a new laptop. The most impressive features: it's less than a pound, it comes preinstalled with several games and runs on standard batteries without a dependency on an electrical outlet. I love it.

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04:08 pm - girlstyle's Birthday

[+10 | Slideshow] After the Vicars and Tarts Mixer, we headed over to Ang's birthday party. Things were pretty mellow there and no one we knew was still there. I think interimlover and I were the only two males present, which would have been a fine ratio had all of the girls not been gay*. * In the sexual way.

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[+37 | Slideshow] The vicars and tarts mixer was alright. I ran into several people I wasn't expecting to see there. Overall, though, it was too dark, loud and crowded (neither condusive to photography or socializing). Also, most of the people disregarded the theme, which was a shame. At some point, Willow and myself and Katie crashed the neighbors party but it was too small not to be noticed so we ate some of their food, had some wine and left. Apparently the cops came after we left and arrested people, but we'd left for Ang's birthday party by that point. As a whole, I was pleased with these photos. I returned my flash, so I'm back to available lighting.

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[+13] Sara had a small birthday event on Monday at the Rendezvous. The pictures are a bit warm and some of them expose my ignorance about syncing a flash. I think this is my favorite picture of velvet I've taken. {On that note, I wish we'd made karaoke tonight}. I also really like this photo of Katie and I, taken by quent asabass.

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[+17] I found 18 more photos from my birthday party. I think most of these were taken by me but, honestly, I wasn't in a state to really remember for sure.

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11:09 pm - More party photos, thanks to meowlet...

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[+12] These is the first batch of photos developed with my Yashika 635 medium format camera which Katie gave me for my birthday. I love this camera. A lot of the portraits were blurry (see previous post) but a couple of them turned out alright. This one of meowlet is by far my favorite from the set.

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